- Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
- Edmund Burke on Wisdom
- Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.
- Arianna Huffington on Wisdom
- Man is only great when he acts from passion.
- Benjamin Disraeli on Wisdom
- Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.
- Hal Borland on Wisdom
- Man's wisdom is his best friend folly his worst enemy.
- William Temple on Wisdom
- Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.
- Bob Woodward on Wisdom
- Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.
- Bell Hooks on Wisdom
- Memory is not wisdom idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?
- Martin Farquhar Tupper on Wisdom
- Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
- Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton on Wisdom
- Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
- Havelock Ellis on Wisdom
- Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.
- Phyllis Theroux on Wisdom
- Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
- Bertolt Brecht on Wisdom
- Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
- Charles Caleb Colton on Wisdom
- Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
- Graham Greene on Wisdom
- More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
- George Eliot on Wisdom
- Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
- Robert Louis Stevenson on Wisdom
- Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
- Wallace Stegner on Wisdom
- Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.
- Charles Simmons on Wisdom
- Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.
- Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
- Ludwig Van Beethoven on Wisdom
- Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.
- Charlie Parker on Wisdom
- My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
- William Tecumseh Sherman on Wisdom
- My government, you can be assured, will be less focused on personalities. It is about treating people with respect. I think complaining about the community not being able to see the wisdom of our ideas is the wrong approach.
- Jay Weatherill on Wisdom
- My mom calls me an older soul because, growing up, she taught me stuff real early. Now I spend most of my time chasing wisdom, chasing understanding.
- My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me.
- Katherine Heigl on Wisdom
- My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.
- Gene Oliver on Wisdom
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